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Dr Da Silva, a Co-PI in the Smart Grids Big Data Spoke and Department head, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University was present, as a representative, at the meeting held on Friday, June 9 where more than 90 people from across sectors and disciplines—academia, government, nonprofits and industry—met at the Microsoft Chevy Chase Pavilion near Washington, DC, to assess the progress of the South Big Data Hub and shape its future. The second South Big Data Hub All-Hands meeting wa...

NSF Big Data Hub will host the first webinar from our IEEE PES Subcommittee on Big Data & Analytics for Power Systems at 2:00 PM, June 28, EST. We will have Dr. Chandrasekar Venkatraman and Dr. Pierre Huyn from Big Data Laboratory,....

News from South BD Hub:
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a webinar from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET on April 25, 2017 to inform the ongoing study Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective. The study will set forth a vision for the emerging discipline of data science at the undergraduate level. It will emphasize core underlying principles, intellectual content, and pedagogical issues specific to data science, including core concept...

The focus of this webinar is on different BD sources in the utility industry that range from field measurements obtained by substation/feeder intelligent electronic devices, to specialized commercial and/or government/state databases: weather data of different types, lightning detection data, seismic data, fire detection data, electricity market data, vegetation and soil data, and more. More information can be found here.

The South Hub will be hosting a workshop at Georgia Tech on Challenges in Data Analytics and Decision-making from Distributed Sensors in order to collect practitioner input into the problems surrounding the use of data coming from distributed sensors in the context of smart cities and smart campuses. For more information and free registration, visit the website.

Panelists will include: Kathleen M. Carley, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon University, Huan Liu, PhD, of Arizona State University, Rand Waltzman, PhD, of Rand Corporation, and Nitin Agarwal, PhD, of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The full roundtable discussion may be found at http://www.southbdhub.org/

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic (kezunov@ece.tamu.edu), Principal Investigator, will be attending the Annual Big Data Hubs/Spokes Meeting in Washington, DC on March 16-17, 2017.
More information can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bigdata/